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Ruby Flowers: Flowers at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock features a selection of floral studies by the Glasgow-based florist. Ruby says, ‘My appreciation of flowers and their transient pleasures started at an early age. Both my parents loved gardening. I watched them so content planting flowers and vegetables. Cutting flowers and bringing them into…

The BAFTA Awards are Feb. 10, with Oscars two weeks later. All the lead actress nominees are terrific, but Glenn Close creates something unique because it’s so subtle. What she does is harder than it looks. In Sony Classics’ “The Wife,” Close has the least showy role of the contenders, which is usually an awards…

The Glasgow florist’s eye for colour is put to good use in both her west-end home and her sculptural bouquets and arrangements. In between styling local bars such as the Finnieston and the Kelvingrove Café, hosting masterclasses at Jo Malone in Princes Square, talking through wedding flowers with prospective brides, and creating floral arrangements for…